The natural history museum of the Canton of Bern, with one of the most extensive geoscience collections in Switzerland. Holdings span mineralogy, paleontology, and meteoritics across three published collections in geoda.
Institutions
4 Swiss institutions currently publish in geoda — 8 collections, 33 records in total. Each institution remains the authoritative source for its own holdings; geoda federates discovery across them.
- Naturhistorisches Museum BernBern, Switzerland · Founded 18323 collections 11 specimens
- Naturmuseum NaturbielBiel/Bienne, Switzerland · Founded 1925
Bilingual French/German regional museum, holding paleontological material from the Jura arc as well as a small but well-documented mineralogy reference collection.
1 collection 4 specimens - Naturmuseum SolothurnSolothurn, Switzerland · Founded 1822
Regional natural-history museum with a focus on Mesozoic paleontology from the Solothurn Jura. Notable holdings include the Twannberg meteorite series and a regionally significant trilobite reference collection.
2 collections 6 specimens - Naturmuseum St. GallenSt. Gallen, Switzerland · Founded 1846
Eastern-Switzerland natural-history museum with strong holdings in Alpine mineralogy. The Burri-Wieland mineralogy collection — acquired by Bern in 1923 — was originally curated here.
2 collections 12 specimens